Sentences with phrase «power over ethics»

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The scientist, like the doctor, has power over the life and well - being of man, and so, it is argued, the public is particularly vulnerable to his code of ethics.

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.

Apparently God inspired his prophets to offer proposals for a new sexual ethic, and correct the waywardness of repressive Christianity, only from the age of rubber goods and great technological power over the bodily functions of man — which was very convenient.

First in his original budget, and then in the 30 - day amendments released last Friday, Cuomo placed controversial ethics and education reforms in appropriations bills, over which the Legislature is afforded very little power under the state Constitution.

The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

King Sweeney, a Republican who has been at odds with Santino for months over ethics reform, said she would fight any attempts to put Santino «loyalists in positions of power in the new administration.»

He is the State Attorney General, his party has complete control and power over the entire state, and his father was governor multiple times, yet in typical DEMOCRAT ethics fashion, he calls himself an outsider.

In particular, he wants it to create a state ethics control board that is independent and has «robust enforcement powers» over both the Legislature and the governor's offices.If that doesn't happen in the first six months, Mr. Cuomo says he will indeed allow Mr. Schneiderman's office to become Albany's one - stop, anti-sleaze operation.

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo faces many hurdles when he takes office in January, so here's one shortcut to ethics reform: He should hand over the power to investigate public corruption in Albany to the new attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.

There is, as Yuval Levin noted in his remarks on the encyclical, something paradoxical about the union of the left, which tends to see itself as the party of science, and the environmental movement, since the latter's holistic view of nature is at odds with modern science's ethic of human power over nature.